This is the truth: Swine flu is NOT as dangerous and the AIDS or the HIV virus
This is the reason behind it:The swine flu is actually man made, made by some disease and virus mutation research team in Mexico, and they try to investigate how flus will turn out when they mutate so the world will have a pre-vaccination created and made and refined before the actual flu comes out itself. Now, one day, an anonymous scientist or researcher accidentally let some of this new virus that they had created from pigs (and therefore it is called the swine flu) out into the air.
The scientist that opened it caught it, and spread it out to other scientists and researchers, and then finally, to the whole world. Due to the massive globalisation of the whole human population on Earth, it quickly spread out to the rest of the continent, and then to the rest of the globe. Now, the swine flu is only a normal flu that has mutated and has become a new strain of the flu. As it spread out throughout the globe, it became many different new strains and there are now many different "sub-species" of this flu, as you might like to call it.
The reason why the whole entire globular world is so panicky and all that is because of the previous epidemical disease that was spread out in 2003, also known as SARS. Now THIS is a life threatening disease that people couldn't find a cure for, and this is why people panicked. In 2003, people started to wear masks (in Asian countries and cities), they would sterilize the place two times a day, everywhere. The buttons of public places where people would use them a lot (like lifts and such) would have a sheet of plastic placed over it that is changed twice a day.
OK, let's come back to the present. Oh no!!!!! It's the Swine Flu!!!!! Will it be as life threatening as SARS? This, we do not know. Does it have anything to do with pigs? (You know, SWINE flu..) We don't know either.
But to prepare for this, let's have some, I mean, lots and lots and lots of precautions in case it turns out to be the same as what SARS was like in 2003. OK, so Egypt quickly kills all pigs and swine-related animals. There was an outrage from farmers and pig/swine-breeders. People would avoid other people that came from Mexico, in case they have swine flu too. People began to assume that EVERYONE in or that comes from Mexico, both either on a holiday or was a citizen has swine flu.
People on the streets became more hygienic. People would wash their hands often, and usually suspiciously stare at other people (usually communters on the train or other public transport) like THEY have swine flu too! The Asian countries started again. They wore masks (everyone did, apart from the people that couldn't afford one), and sterilized everything in their path twice a day.
Even Mexico made everyone wear masks. Governments panicked and began to put other precautions. In Singapore, if you have ANY sign of sickness, whether it is swine flu or not, you will be made to be under "house arrest" or more like "hotel arrest" if you came from another place for seven days.
The quarantine of airports from everywhere in the world became more and more strict, and they doubled. People find it hard to travel to other places now...
And clinics and hospitals from everywhere in the world began to put up hygienic posters everywhere and remind their fellow public citizens to go immediately to their nearby hospital to get treated if they have any symptoms of the flu... (high fever, shaking limbs, coughs...)
But, was it worth it?
It was said that the original strain of the swine flu is much, much, much stronger than the other strains when it was let out and "bloomed" in other countries. For Australia, it is nothing more than a bad flu, though some people did die (in Melbourne, where the flu first came on land), but by the time it reached other places on the continent, it is just nothing but a flu.
In Hong Kong, many people got affected with swine flu. Schools closed down because of the rapid spread from one student to another, and then finally their families, and all the students that were diagnosed with swine flu had to go to the hospital and were under what we know as "hospital arrest". Further studies found out that while one or two people in Hong Kong (China) died, other students were having "parties" with masks everyday (because they, the friends, were able to sleep next to each other), bringing their laptops, gameboys/DSs, iPods/mp3s/walkmans, etc and o fcourse, lollies and junk foods to the hospital, taking pictures of themselves and posting them up of Facebook.
Nearly no one died.
So, as you can see from my lengthy analysis, basically it is clearly shown that Swine Flu is nowhere as near as HIV/AIDs, where the death is nearly certain and requires daily treatment...
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Let's wait and see what H1N1 does from now on. I'm sure it's booking a ticket for itself real soon....
